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THE STATING OF TRUTHFUL FACTS 



We made our first planting of Nursery stock in Somerset County, Maryland, in the spring of 1907. 

 We had been located in western Pennsylvania, but the growing conditions there were so that we knew if 

 we were to hold our trade and build our business up as it should be we would have to seek a better loca- 

 tion. After considering many sections of the United States we finally decided on the Eastern Shore of Mary- 

 land, and made our first planting on a large 200-acre farm near Princess Anne during the spring of 1907. 

 The results obtained from this planting were such that we knew we had ideal conditions to develop the 

 Nursery business at our new location. After struggling for more than twenty years trying to produce good 

 trees and plants in Pennsylvania, where our climatic and soil conditions were not favorable to growing 

 them, we cannot tell you how gratified we were to see the results of our efforts here in Maryland. We 

 knew the principles of producing Nursery stock, but we never had the advantages that only Mother Nature 

 can give through proper geographical location. Here at Princess Anne we could grow a fruit tree as large 

 in two years as we could possibly grow it in three years in Pennsylvania. We could grow it with less 

 cultivation and fertilization. We could grow it at a greatly reduced cost of production. We could produce 

 a tree or plant with a better root system because of soil conditions. 



We could grow a more uniform growth on our stock, giving the planters a tree or plant each 



year that would run uniform in size. We could grow our stock without fear of winter injury from sudden 

 freezes and low temperatures. We could carry our stock through the winter without winter storage and 

 give our patrons stock kept alive and vigorous with Nature's moisture. We could produce a tree or plant 

 that would thrive whether it was planted in the far north, or south, or west. 



THE REASONING ABILITY OF AN UNPREJUDICED MIND 



Now that we have told you some of the reasons why the Bountiful Ridge Nurseries are located at 

 Princess Anne, Maryland, we wish to substantiate these statements with some reasons from which you 

 can draw your own conclusions. Why will stock grow so well here, why is it hardy, and why do we make 

 the claims we do? Our geographical location gives to us one of the most ideal conditions to be found in 

 the Temperate Zone. Our growing seasons are long. Our rainfalls are uniform enough that lack of 

 moisture does not affect the growth of any of our trees or shrubs which root deeply. Our summers are not 

 excessively hot so as to produce too tender a growth. Our fall season comes on gradually, never giving us 

 a frost that will damage Nursery stock while it is yet growing. Our winters are mild, very seldom having 

 temperatures lower than 12 degrees F; our cold nights remaining long enough in the spring to hold our 

 stock dormant so it will not be damaged by late frost. Our soil varies from a rich chocolate loam, where 

 all of our deeper rooted plants and trees are growing, to the lighter sandy soils, where our strawberry, rasp- 

 berry and blackberry plants grow, because they can be dug at any time with their full-root system. Our 

 water level is comparatively close to the surface, so that when we are in severe droughts our trees and 

 plants obtain moisture from below if we keep our top soil worked well. We do not have to use a lot of 

 fertilizer to force a growth on our stock. It grows natural with Nature's help and our thorough methods 

 of cultivation and propagation. Do these things sound reasonable to you? Don't you consider them nat- 

 ural advantages for producing Nursery stock? 



ARE YOU OPEN TO PERSUASION? 



We have tried to state the facts as they are in a simple way so anyone could understand them. We 

 know we can grow as good stock or better than it is possible for most other nurseries to produce, and we 

 know that it is possible for us to produce it at a much more reasonable price than most other nurseries 

 can, quality of stock being considered. We also know that we can stand back of our stock, guaranteeing 

 it to be thrifty, guaranteeing it to be hardy, guaranteeing it to be free from all injurious diseases, guaran- 

 teeing it to give absolute satisfaction to everyone who buys it. It is not humanly possible for any nursery 

 to give their products any more careful attention than we give our nursery. Mr. George W. Kemp, general 

 manager of our nursery, who is now rounding out his sixty-fifth year, has given his entire life to the study 

 of producing and distributing nursery stock. His two sons, Edgar H. Kemp and Homer S. Kemp, have 

 spent most of their years since childhood in the nursery business with their father, and we believe, being 

 interested in the business as we are, giving every branch of it our personal supervision, participating 

 actively in the development of the Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, delivering to their patrons hardy, thrifty, 

 productive true-to-name trees and plants, serves as one of the greatest guarantees to the buyer that deals 

 with the Bountiful Ridge Nurseries that he will get satisfaction and liberal treatment in whatever he 

 may buy. 



Consider what the selection of proper seedling understock can mean to an orchardist ten years after 

 planting a tree. Consider what it can mean to a planter who may be sacrificing in order to plant an 

 orchard which might mean his success or failure in the near future to have trees that are grown from 

 buds cut directly from bearing trees by a man who is really interested in his nursery and is selecting the 

 best trees of each variety or the best plants of each species to cut buds and grafts from to propagate his 

 trees and plants. Doesn't it mean something to you to have trees and berry plants propagated from the 

 finest types of each variety and species which will produce much heavier, and, in the case of apple trees, 

 come into fruiting from one to four years sooner than trees produced by cutting buds and grafts from the 

 nursery rows year after year? Does it mean anything to you to be able to buy stock which you can plant 

 with absolute assurance that it is going to prove true to name? Does it mean anything to you to start 

 with disease-free stock that will thrive and produce for you? Does it mean anything to you as a planter 

 to deal direct with a nursery that gives the growing of their stock personal supervision and are always 

 looking for better fruit and plants which will mean added profits to you as their patrons and who offer 

 you only what they consider the most dependable of our present-day varieties and species of trees and 

 plants, giving honest descriptions and ripening periods as near as it is possible to do so? We could go on 

 asking questions like these until we covered pages, but we are sure that you know what we are trying to 

 tell you, and we hope that you will answer each of these questions in your own mind, being unprejudiced 

 in your conclusions, and choose the right nursery to buy your trees and plants from this year. 



